Moroccan winger Youness Mokhtar has joined Columbus Crew SC, the American professional football club based in Ohio announced on Friday. According to Massive Report, the 27-year-old footballer was signed after he played for several European first division teams, including Norway’s Stabaek. Mokhtar played for the Netherlands, Turkey and Saudi Arabi, making 170 appearances in total and scoring 28 goals. «We would like to welcome Youness Mokhtar to Columbus Crew SC. Youness is a
Serbian manager Zoran Manojlovic has been appointed as a head coach of Morocco’s Wydad Casablanca (WAC), replacing the team’s former manager Faouzi Benzarti, BBC Sport said on Friday. Manojlovic will be managing the Casablanca red squad for two seasons after Benzarti left for Tunisian club Etoile du Sahel. The Serbian coach had his first meeting with Wydad players last Wednesday, when they held a training session at the Benjaloun Stadium in Casablanca. «I have seen the
To denounce the working conditions of Moroccan workers in Huelva, Collective 24h Women took part Friday in the Cravana Abriendo Fronteras which stopped in southwestern Spain to defend the rights of agriculturals workers. The initiative included several rallies, held in several Spanish cities to support the cause of agricultural workers in the region, especially female fruit pickers who come from Morocco to Spain every year to work. The caravan stopped in Huelva, where more than 300
Superior Court of Quebec Justice Michel Yergeau rejected an application for temporary suspension of certain articles of the new Quebec religious symbols law, although he acknowledged that this was raising «serious» constitutional issues. CBC News quoted him, Thursday, saying that the jurisdiction must «defer, at this stage, to the power of elected politicians to pass legislation that they believe is in the public good». Last month, this law was adopted by the government
Hervé Renard is officially no longer the manager of the Moroccan national football team. This is what he announced Sunday, in a statement posted on social media. He explains that he made this decision after much thought and that the president of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) was thereby officially informed. «He has contractually agreed to respect my decision, which I am thankful for», the coach writes. «It was a great adventure that started
In the midst of rumors about kidnapping and sequestration of children, lawyer Eric Dupond-Moretti relays the wrath of King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma, stressing that those were false and «serious» assertions against Crown Prince Moulay Hassan and his sister Lalla Khadija. Released Saturday exclusively by Gala, this denial defended by the lawyer indicates that these rumors were «firmly and formally rejected» by the Sovereign and the Princess. The Crown
Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Nasser Bourita is currently on a three-day visit to Jordan after he was invited by his Jordanian counterpart Aymen al-Safdi, MAP reports. The Minister’s trip is to end on July 21, the same source added. This trip will be an opportunity for the countries to implement the major lines of the joint communiqué issued during the visit of King Abdullah to Morocco, on March 27 and 28. During this trip, the two
The Algerian national football team won, Friday, the Africa Cup of Nations, held in Egypt, after defeating Senegal. This victory, the second of its kind, has been celebrated by Moroccans too. In Eastern Morocco, several people marched to the border between the Kingdom and Algeria to congratulate their neighbors from afar. A video shared on social media showed the inhabitants of the region chanting and cheering the Algerian team while standing near the border separating Morocco from
Hind Laroussi is a Moroccan-Dutch singer who reached fame after participating to Dutch TV show Idols as a teenager. After building herself a successful career in Europe, she moved to the United States to reach a wider audience. In Los Angeles, her song made it to the top five in the billboard charts.
When the French realized that nationalists were close to Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef, they dethroned him and replaced him with his cousin Mohammed Ben Arafa. The latter remained sultan for two years before being banned from living in Morocco.
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